Fit & Flustered
Claim This Podcastby Jessica H Maurer & Dr. Erin Nitschke
Podcast Overview
<p><b>Fit & Flustered</b> is the refreshingly honest podcast for fitness pros navigating the messy middle of midlife. Hosted by Jessica H. Maurer and Dr. Erin Nitschke, each 20-minute episode dives into real conversations about health journeys, career evolution, burnout, hormones, mindset, and everything in between. Expect smart insights, candid stories, practical takeaways, and the kind of truth you usually only hear after the mic is “off.” Perfect for busy fitness professionals who want meaningful, bite-sized conversations that are both validating and energizing.</p>
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July 16, 2026
Season 1: Wrap Up
<p><b>Fraggled, Flustered, and Ready for What's Next: </b>Jessica H. Maurer and Dr. Erin Nitschke close out Season One of Fit & Flustered with a conversation that is equal parts reflection, gratitude, and excitement for what is coming. </p><p></p><p>They revisit the themes that kept showing up across every single guest conversation — resilience, community, the grift, and the radical reframe that midlife is not a decline but a doorway into your most powerful self. They talk about what they learned, what surprised them, what made them laugh until they cried, and why Season Two is going to look a little different. </p><p></p><p>Hint: it is less about giving more and more about giving back. Also they really need someone to get Leslie Jones on the phone.</p><p></p><p></p><p><b>Takeaways</b></p><ul><li>No two midlife health journeys look the same — but every single guest this season found resilience on the other side of their hardest moment.</li><li>Community was the undercurrent of every conversation this season. You do not have to walk this alone and you were never meant to.</li><li>The grift is loud, it is everywhere, and it specifically targets women at their most vulnerable. Recognizing it is the first step to ignoring it.</li><li>Midlife is not a decline. It is the moment you stop tolerating what no longer serves you and start stepping into your actual power.</li><li>Improving as a human being is just as valuable as improving as a professional. They are not separate goals.</li><li>We live in a country that chronically underfunds preventative care — and that gap falls hardest on women in midlife.</li><li>Subtraction is a strategy. Carrying less is not a weakness — it sharpens everything that remains.</li><li>Laughter is not a side effect of this podcast. It is the point.</li><li>Go back to the things that made you happy in your formative years. They will still make you happy now.</li><li>Season Two is coming and it is going to be focused on giving back to the community that made Season One possible.</li></ul><p></p><p></p><p><b>Chapters</b></p><ul><li>00:00 A Little Bittersweet: Wrapping Up Season One</li><li>01:15 What We Learned About Audio, Fraggles, and Everything in Between</li><li>02:18 The Big Themes of Season One: Resilience, Community, and the Grift</li><li>04:39 Leslie Jones Needs to Be on Season Two — Someone Make This Happen</li><li>05:14 Midlife Does Not Happen in Isolation: Hip Replacements, Divorces, Job Loss, and Menopause All at Once</li><li>06:00 Reframing the Rhetoric: Midlife as Power, Not Decline</li><li>08:16 What Season Two Is Going to Look Like and Why It Is About Giving Back</li><li>10:03 Hormone Testing, Mental Health Support, and Closing the Access Gap</li><li>11:10 A Few Requests From Jess and Erin to the Fit & Flustered Community</li><li>13:21 Amber Toole Walked In and Said She Had No Story — We Still Laugh About It</li><li>14:45 If You Are Having One of Those Days: Turn on an Episode</li><li>15:21 What We Are Over: Carrying Too Much and Improving Only for the Clock</li><li>17:07 Introducing the New Segment: Lady Loves — Aloe Vera Masks and Tori Amos in Orlando</li><li>18:37 Thank You, See You in Season Two</li></ul>
July 9, 2026
Lisa Greenbaum: Episode 18
<p><b>Get Yourself a Girl Gang:</b> Jessica H. Maurer and Dr. Erin Nitschke welcome Lisa Greenbaum, yoga educator, founder of Sangha Yoga Collective, serial entrepreneur, and self-described reluctant group fitness instructor who walked into her first training and never looked back. Lisa has been teaching for nearly 25 years, built and walked away from a toxic yoga education company, lost her husband in 2022, navigated perimenopause through grief and pandemic recovery simultaneously, and came out the other side with better boundaries, a naturopath she trusts, and a girl gang that celebrated her 50th in London and her friend's 50th in Spain. This episode is warm, honest, and a beautiful reminder that simplicity, community, and breath can carry you through just about anything.</p><p></p><p><b>Takeaways</b></p><ul><li>You cannot get through 25 years of teaching unscathed by life — and showing up anyway is part of the job and the gift.</li><li>Teaching authentically from the heart is not the same as performing. One connects. The other exhausts.</li><li>Psychological safety in your friendships is not optional. Your girl gang is a health practice.</li><li>Perimenopause does not arrive in a vacuum. Grief, stress, and hormonal shifts layer on top of each other in ways that are nearly impossible to separate.</li><li>Insomnia can masquerade as stress for years before perimenopause reveals itself as the real driver.</li><li>Breath work, meditation, and mantra are not the soft side of yoga. They are the most powerful tools in the toolkit.</li><li>Your students give back more than you realize. Sometimes getting to the class is the hardest part — but being in it heals you too.</li><li>Strength training matters even when you love yoga. Twenty-five years of the same movement pattern will catch up with you.</li><li>Burnout is not a bad week. If you are using it as a badge of honor you have probably never actually experienced it.</li><li>The difference between burnout and boredom is enormous — and so are the solutions.</li><li></li></ul><p><b>Chapters</b></p><ul><li>00:00 Words of the Episode: Zen, Crafty, and Joy</li><li>01:06 Meet Lisa Greenbaum: Recruited Off the Floor and Never Looking Back</li><li>03:10 Stumbling Into Yoga and How It Changed Everything — Twice</li><li>05:04 The Unfolding Career That Led to Sangha Yoga Collective</li><li>06:44 Yoga and Perimenopause Are Not That Different</li><li>07:01 Tell Us About Being Flustered: A Toxic Yoga Company and a Trauma-Informed Training</li><li>10:05 Teaching With Integrity When Your Life Is Falling Apart Behind the Scenes</li><li>11:26 Better Boundaries, Selective Collaboration, and Staying True to Yourself</li><li>12:35 Why Your Girl Gang Is Not a Luxury — It Is a Lifeline</li><li>15:29 Navigating Perimenopause Through Grief, Pandemic Recovery, and Career Rebuilding</li><li>17:41 What Actually Helped: Yoga Practice, Naturopathic Care, Strength Training, and All the Vitamins</li><li>19:06 What We Are Over: Other People's Opinions, Over-Complication Culture, and Burnout as a Buzzword</li><li>23:03 Find Lisa at Sangha Yoga Collective</li></ul>
July 2, 2026
Krista Scott-Dixon: Episode 17
<p>#ShowMeYourBooks: Jessica H. Maurer and Dr. Erin Nitschke welcome Dr. Krista Scott-Dixon — coach, educator, headspace adjuster, menopause textbook author, women's studies pioneer, and one of the most refreshingly unfiltered voices in the wellness space — for a conversation that is equal parts brilliant and hilarious.</p><p></p><p>Krista has spent her career getting people unstuck, from midlife women navigating perimenopause to special operations military going through elite pipelines, and she brings the same no-nonsense, evidence-based, deeply human lens to all of it. She talks about the predatory tsunami of menopause misinformation on social media, why optimization is a grift, what vaginal estrogen can do for you, and her one and only nutrition rule. Spoiler: don't be weird.</p><p></p><p><b>Takeaways</b></p><ul><li>Getting stuck is not a sign of failure — it is a normal and universal part of being human and trying to change.</li><li>A significant portion of what we chalk up to menopause is actually the result of sedentary living and poor nutrition — and both are addressable at any age.</li><li>Social media has created a predatory tsunami of misinformation targeting midlife women who simply want to feel better.</li><li>All or nothing thinking is a North American cultural default — and it is one of the most harmful patterns in health and wellness.</li><li>Optimization is not a real thing. It is a grift designed to create anxiety and sell products.</li><li>Vaginal estrogen is local, widely accessible, and one of the most underutilized tools available to menopausal women.</li><li>Preventive screening — the basic, unsexy, evidence-based kind — is one of the greatest gifts a good healthcare provider can give you.</li><li>Literacy and healthcare system failures leave many women vulnerable to predatory wellness content. A good coach can serve as an evidence-based navigator.</li><li>Role modeling healthy aging matters. Simple habits, self-trust, and a well-tended garden can carry you to nearly one hundred.</li><li>Women's wellness is having a moment — but the stages and speaker lineups still do not reflect that. That needs to change.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Chapters</b></p><ul><li>00:00 Words of the Episode: Permission, Power Skills, and Curiosity</li><li>02:45 Meet Krista Scott-Dixon: Headspace Adjuster, Menopause Textbook Author, and Coach to Everyone From Midlife Women to Special Ops</li><li>06:21 Have You Ever Been Stuck? A PhD, a Pyramid Scheme, and Disordered Eating</li><li>09:38 Perimenopause, Midlife Women, and the Predatory Tsunami of Wellness Misinformation</li><li>13:32 Why All or Nothing Thinking Is So Dangerous — and What Good Coaching Actually Does</li><li>15:39 The Don't Be Crazy Rule and Why It Is the Only One You Need</li><li>16:25 Literacy, Healthcare System Failures, and Why Women Are So Vulnerable Right Now</li><li>18:32 What Helped Krista Through Her Own Perimenopause Journey</li><li>19:05 A Grandmother Who Hauled Wood in Her Eighties and Lived Almost to One Hundred</li><li>20:22 Finding Healthcare Providers Who Actually Listen — Including Two Dudes Who Insisted on Preventive Screening</li><li>23:41 The First Thing Krista Tells Every Woman She Knows: Vaginal Estrogen</li><li>25:38 What We Are Over: Optimization, Biohacking, Anti-Aging Rhetoric, and Men Running Women's Wellness Stages</li><li>29:16 Find Krista and the One Percent Better Academy</li></ul><p></p>
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- What is Fit & Flustered?
<p><b>Fit & Flustered</b> is the refreshingly honest podcast for fitness pros navigating the messy middle of midlife. Hosted by Jessica H. Maurer and Dr. Erin Nitschke, each 20-minute episode dives into real conversations about health journeys, career evolution, burnout, hormones, mindset, and everything in between. Expect smart insights, candid stories, practical takeaways, and the kind of truth you usually only hear after the mic is “off.” Perfect for busy fitness professionals who want meaningful, bite-sized conversations that are both validating and energizing.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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